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Box G, 14 Charterhouse Buildings CHAIRMAN Guild information Goswell Road, London EC1M 7BA Kirsty Gray Tel: 0800 011 2182 (UK) 11 Brendon Close Tel: 1-800 647 4100 (North America) Tilehurst, Reading Tel: 1800 305 184 (Australia) Berkshire Regional Representatives RG30 6EA The Guild has Regional Reps in E-mail: [email protected] 0118 941 9224 many areas. If you are interested Website: www.one-name.org [email protected] in becoming one, please contact Registered as a charity in England the Regional Rep Coordinator; and Wales No. 802048 VICE-CHAIRMAN Corrinne Goodenough: & EDITOR Keith Bage 11 Wyndham Lane President 60 Fitzgerald Close Allington Derek A Palgrave MA MPhil FRHistS FSG Ely Salisbury Cambridgeshire Wiltshire, SP4 0BY Vice-Presidents CB7 4QD Tel:01980 610835 Richard Moore FSG 01353 650185 E-mail: Iain Swinnerton TD.DL.JP. [email protected] [email protected] Alec Tritton [email protected]
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6 DNA Discoveries (Pt 2) by Susan C Meates 10 Eastlake: A Data Mining Exercise 14 One-Name Archaeology by Derek Palgrave 16 The Moulder Archive by Sue Horsman 19 Killing ‘em off by Roger Goacher 20 Some Speculations on the Origin of the Quested Surname by Penelope Burton
GUILD REPORTS - NEWS - EVENTS
5 Guild News Xtra 17 Who Do You Think You Are? Live by Corrinne Goodenough 24 Seminar Report - Rogues Seminar by Janet Few 25 Forthcoming Seminars 26 Guild Membership Survey by Chris Pomery
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4 From The Chairman’s Keyboard by Kirsty Gray 5 One-Name Mail 18 Marriage Challenge Update by Peter Copsey 27 Book Reviews
ARTICLES, letters and other contributions are welcomed from members, especially accompanied by illustrations, and should be sent to the Editor. Publication dates will normally be the first day of January, April, July and October. Copyright of the material is to the Editor and Publishers of the Journal of One-Name Studies and the author. No material may be reproduced in part or in whole without the prior permission of the publishers. The views expressed in the Journal are those of individual contributors and are not necessarily those of the committee of the Guild of One-Name Studies. The distribution list for this Journal is based on the information held in the Guild database on the first of the month preceding the issue date. From the Chairman’s Keyboard...
By Kirsty Gray
ould I have picked a better time the features of Surname Atlas, the to write my Chairman’s Column improvements include: “This netted the Guild Cthan on my return from Who Do more new members in a 3 You Think You Are Live?! I very much • a county surname tab which doubt it! Having been a member of identified which surnames have day period than have joined our wonderful organisation since a higher total percentage in a in any previous month since 2002, I have personally assisted on particular county than any other various occasions on the bookstall county we began.” with Howard Benbrook and extolled the virtues of the Guild as well as • an increased program win- occasionally managing to sell superb dow with larger graphics and resources to members and non- extended maximum zoom per- to have created a link with someone members alike. With the retirement cent to 5,000% (mainly needed who might be able to work with us on of Howard in November last year for London) creating a mutually beneficial associa- and the new ‘marketing’ approach tion for us all. So, watch this space! to Family History Fairs, Corrinne • a colour-coded histogram bar to Goodenough had a particularly tough display results What a year! task at the event this year. With her Now that I am reaching the end of outstanding management skills and The old saying that ‘a picture is my first year as Chairman and I have a superb team, 47 people joined the worth a thousand words’ is definitely a chance to look back, it has been Guild at the show, 2 who re-joined true with Surname Atlas! As Steve a year of enormous change for the and a further 12 new members joined himself says: ‘Surname Atlas is a must- Guild. I have thoroughly enjoyed online while the show was on, using have for people undertaking family leading the organisation through the special membership offer of 20 history research who want to show the roller coaster of 2010/11, though months for £20 – an ingenious master the distribution of their surnames’. there have been many tough times plan from our Treasurer, Cliff Kemball. and difficult decisions which have This netted the Guild more new Guild Elections had to be taken to steady the ship members in a 3 day period than have The date has passed for nominations and move the Guild forward. We joined in any previous month since we to be received for Election to the don’t always get it right and I am began. A massive achievement! Guild Committee. Results will be grateful when you, the members, announced at the AGM in April tell us we aren’t! That said, it has We were ‘plugged’ by many of the along with the presentation of been particularly gratifying of late lecturers in the programme of Society the Master Craftsmen of the Guild to have received so many e-mails of Genealogists workshops and we (MCG) awards. The AGM/Conference and verbal communications praising are indebted to many helpers during weekend is around the corner and I the work we are doing and thanking the course of the event, from the look forward to seeing many of you the Officers and post holders, all of ‘Ask The Experts’ team, organised by there – some new faces and many old whom give their time freely. Recent Barbara Harvey, to the nearly two friends. If you haven’t booked your comments range from ‘the Guild is dozen members who assisted on the place yet, do get in touch with the so lively now’, ‘I am amazed at the Guild stand. Thank you one and all for team ([email protected]) efficiency and response I get from making this such a success. and see if there are any spaces, but the Guild…… I have also been to a don’t leave it too late!! regional meeting today which was Surname Atlas very informative and friendly’ to For those of you who missed In the last journal, I wrote an arti- ‘we are moving so fast compared WDYTYA, you may be unaware of cle about our new links with Fami- to other genealogical organisations the release of the updated version lySearch. This is now live and in the …. What a wonderful organising (1.1) of Surname Atlas, the software forthcoming months, you should committee we have!’ I am sure that designed by Guild member and begin to see some correspondence you will share in thanking the team Master Craftsman, Steve Archer, coming from individuals who have for their hard work and dedication which plots surname and first name found your one-name study by using in the 2010/11 Guild Committee year data from the 1881 census. For the new site. Ancestry have always and I look forward to many more those who are already familiar with proved hard to crack, though the successful years to come! n personal touch at WDYTYA appears
4 Journal of One-Name Studies, April-June 2011 Guild NewsXtra Guild Helpdesk HELP WANTED! As part of our marketing research reaches Oz the sub-committee is collecting details of published articles on one- By Roy Rayment name, or surname, studies and any mentions of the Guild. All publica- ollowing the highly successful tions from anywhere in the world launch of the Guild Helpdesk’s and all types of sources from news- FNorth American toll-free stand magazines to society journals, telephone number in April last year, both hard copy and “electronic”, the service has now been extended The committee are of interest. The data is entered to the whole of Australia. Calls would like to place on a Wiki page so all members can made to the Guild’s Australian toll- on record its thanks to readily enter new details directly on free telephone number 1800 305184 Lynette Begg (member to the page. are answered there during eastern 4139) of East Maitland in New South business hours (9am to 6pm from Wales for volunteering to man the Please help by submitting any infor- Monday to Saturday) and in the UK new toll-free telephone number mation you come across directly on at all other times. This enables the during local business hours. However, the Wiki page or by emailing to me Guild to provide a seamless 24-hour for both administrative and technical at [email protected] telephone helpdesk service to both reasons, it is not possible at present the general public and to its members, for Lynette to deal with queries To access the page go to the Mem- which is something quite unique for a raised by members regarding website bers Room and click through to genealogical organisation. password difficulties and so members get to the Wiki Contents List. The needing help with these or similar “List of Articles on one-name stud- The Australian toll-free number will problems are advised to call after ies and the Guild” is near the bot- be on trial for about a year, at the end 6pm local time, when their calls will tom of the page. Alternatively of which the Guild committee will be answered in the UK. go direct to the URL: http://www. be in a better position to evaluate it one-name.org/members/wiki/index. properly. If it proves not to have been Lynette and I look forward to speak- php?page=List+of+articles+on+one- used very much, the Guild may well ing to as many as possible of the name+studies+and+the+Guild. decide to discontinue funding it, thus Guild’s Australian members during leaving Canada, the UK and the USA the trial period! the only countries with free telephone access to the Helpdesk.
Pitfalls and Possibilities Update
n the last issue of the Journal I reviewed the excellent book “Pit- Ifalls and Possibilities in Family His- tory Research” by Pauline Litton.
Pauline has contacted me to clarify where the book can be purchased from and to point out the book’s website which can be found at http:// www.pitfallsandpossibilities.co.uk. You do not need to throw away the tape and ‘foreign objects’ have been polythene envelopes that the Journal removed, to Polyprint at the address The website allows payment by (and a lot of your other magazines) below. Please include your contact paypal or alternatively an order form arrive in - they can be recycled! Poly- details & clearly mark the outside of can be downloaded if you prefer to print Mailing Films produce poly- the package “For Recycling”. You will pay by cheque. For those without thene envelopes, and take them back need to pay the postage. a computer the book can also be for recycling (at a loss). obtained directly from Pauline at 2 Polyprint Mailing Films Ltd, Mack- Florence Road, Harrogate HG2 0LD If you would like to participate, intosh Road, Rackheath Industrial (cheques payable to Mrs P. Litton). please send polythene wrappers and Estate, Rackheath, Norwich NR13 6LJ Price including postage is £13.75 UK bags - anything in plastic classes 2 and and £16.75 overseas. 4 - provided all paper labels, sello- John Vincent
Journal of One-Name Studies, April-June 2011 5 DNA Discoveries By Susan C. Meates
n part 2 of this article series, more Phillips DNA Project and One- Guild members share their results Name Study Ifrom their DNA Project, and Family Tree DNA, Ancestry.com, DNA illustrate how DNA is an important Heritage, and others. Established 2004. component of their one-name study. Participants, 523 at Family Tree DNA.
Adding DNA testing to your one- Nancy Kiser, administrator; Tom Hutch- name study is an opportunity to ison, co-administrator; Virginia Phillips- make interesting discoveries and Smith, co-administrator. discover information not available in Fig 2. Charles W. Phillips (b. 1860 the paper records. Websites: http://www.phillipsdnapro- Tennessee) and 2nd wife Effie Byrd ject.com/ and http://one-name-study. You will have success with your DNA phillipsdnaproject.com/ 2. Identify how the participants’ fam- Project, regardless of your country of ilies are connected, both genetically residence. Just as a one-name study is The Phillips One-Name Study com- and through paper trails. a global endeavor, a DNA Project is also menced officially in 2009 when the global. The global nature of a DNA Phillips surname was registered with 3. Identify and confirm genetic line- Project enables you, if you so choose, the Guild of One-Name Studies, but ages of ancestral families and find our to raise funds in migration destination the roots of the study go back to ancestral roots in Europe, or wherever countries, to fund testing in the 2004 when a Phillips DNA project they may be. ancestral country, to help participants was organized in the United States. find a match. Often a documented Here are the goals of the project, 4. Ultimately catalog pedigrees and link to the ancestral country can’t be then and now: genetic connections of all known found for early migrations, and DNA Phillips trees. testing will help these persons discover 1. Help researchers from common or more information about their distant related branches of Phillips families We believe it would be impractical ancestors and a DNA match might work together to find their shared to do a one-name study of such a provide a location for further research. heritage. common surname as Phillips without In addition, regardless of the country, the help of DNA analysis, because it often multiple members of a family would be impossible to sort out and tree will contribute to fund testing for their tree. Raising donations is optional, though it is worth considering, since it will make it easier to recruit participants when you can provide a paid test or partially sponsored test kit.
With this Journal issue, another project, the Phillips DNA Project, has passed the 500 member mark, and joins the Wells DNA Project as the only two Guild member projects to reach this point.
Many Guild projects have now passed 100 participants, and more are closing in on 100. The number of participants depends on the frequency of the surname, the time the project has been in existence, and the time devoted to recruiting. In addition, using sales and marketing techniques and material can increase recruiting Fig 1. Engraving of Picton Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales, ancestral home of the effectiveness. Philipps family.
6 Journal of One-Name Studies, April-June 2011 differentiate between all the diverse, unrelated Phillips families worldwide. Thus far, through DNA analysis, we have identified more than 60 distinct, unrelated Phillips families in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, United States, Canada and other countries around the world.
There are over 350 different Phillips pedigrees in our database. We maintain a large database of information on Phillips families worldwide and try to help our participants as much as we can with their individual research, but we function mainly as the coordinator of a large networked group of researchers. Every month, one or more of these researchers discovers a Phillips relative or branch that they never before knew existed. Some of Fig 3. 107 Ulphs and descendants pack into the village hall at Burnham, Ulph the DNA matches have been between for the first clan gathering in 1987. Photo taken by Colin Ulph. Phillips men who live in different countries. This is the reason and rationale for our existence. men so far tested, nor between ULPH various Parrott families, but have come and the ALP and ALPE families. One of up empty. Ulph DNA Project the ALPS lines was already known to Colin Ulph. Family Tree DNA Estab- have derived from an ALPE but, as he Now, DNA testing has revealed that lished 2008. 65 Participants. was illegitimate, no common ancestry there were multiple Parrott families was expected beyond the eighteenth who settled in the American Colonies. The project, which embraces the century and DNA has confirmed this. It turns out the Parrott settlers in 1600’s surnames ULPH, AULPH, HULF, ALP, Other important discoveries so far have Virginia represent two completely ALPE and ALPS, began in July 2008, been common DNA between men from unrelated families. A third Parrott family when our one-name study was already separate ULPH lines, which gives hope from Virginia was founded by a Swiss 30 years old. All six names exist in living that further research might reveal a immigrant in the 1730s. Furthermore, families around the world but are common ancestor at some future time. the Virginia Parrotts turn out not to be quite rare, the current total number of related to the 1600’s Maryland Parrott male name-holders worldwide being As the project continues, considerable family, and it is now evident that at least just over 350. Documented ancestry effort is going into identifying and one additional Parrott family settled in indicates that ULPH, ALP and ALPE all locating useful ‘targets’ for testing in Maryland in the 1750’s. originated in Norfolk pre-fourteenth the future. We keep up the interest century and probably emanated from by informing all past volunteers of In the 1700 and 1800’s, Parrott families the parish of Burnham Ulph, now part the latest developments by means of began appearing throughout the south- of Burnham Market. AULPH, ALPS a twice-yearly progress report, and a eastern part of the country, as the original and HULF are of more recent origin, summary aimed at the whole clan is settlements expanded westward. Most possibly variants. One of the project’s included in our periodic newsletter, of these have incomplete paper trails, objectives has been to discover whether ULPH Family News. and thus could not be traced with any all six names might be traceable to a certainty to one of the original Parrott common male ancestor who lived since Parrott DNA project families. Finally, DNA made it possible surnames came into use. So far at least Wayne Parrott. Family Tree DNA. 53 to assign these branches to the correct three men with each name have been participants. original families, and in some cases, to tested - more where a single name, like the correct parents. ULPH, has several lines known to be P-rr-tts began to appear in Maryland distinct over the past 300 years. and Virginia beginning in the 1600s, From a research point of view, it is and the spelling Parrott soon became no longer necessary to spend time and Although it’s early days in our project, standard. Given that their descendants effort to find the missing links that one exciting discovery early on was that frequently crossed paths as they were supposed to connect the various all three HULFs tested have identical settled throughout the southeastern family branches together—the families DNA with some of the ULPHs, proving United States, the assumption was are not related, so there were never any that they do have a common ancestor that they were all one family. This missing links to begin with. Now, the who is yet to be found. It seems also that assumption became official ‘fact’ with surviving paper record makes sense, as the families of ALP and ALPE will have a the publication of the book, Links that it no longer has to fit the preconceived common ancestor, too. Early DNA results Bind in 1967. Subsequent research notions. Without such constraints, it show, however, that there is no genetic efforts have tried repeatedly to find has been possible to trace one of the link between the AULPH and ULPH the missing links that connected the three 1600’s families back to its origins
Journal of One-Name Studies, April-June 2011 7 near Banbury and descendants of that line flourish in Britain and elsewhere around the world.
Most of the family groups stem from a dozen locations, most of them within walking distance or horseback ride from Marston St Lawrence. A couple of the groups can be traced back to Adam on paper, most can only be traced back to the 17th or 18th centuries; DNA analysis has enabled us to link the various groups. A Blencowe descendant of a 19thC emigrant to Fig 4. The signatures and seals of Richard Perrot and his son, Richard Jr., dated Virginia from Towcester is one of the 2 April 1683. The Elder Richard founded one of the Parrott Families in Virginia known descendants of Adam and his in the mid 1600’s. It is now known he was born on 10 Feb 1621/22 in Potton, DNA is our “type specimen” and these Bedfordshire, England. A large proportion of the Parrotts in the USA today family groups have an exact match descend from Richard. Despite numerous reports to the contrary, these Perrots with him: did not use the 3-pear design on their seal. This photo was taken in 2007 by Joseph Parrott. This and similar documents are part of the Churchill Family • Blincoes of USA (descended from Papers, MSS 1197, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library. a 17thC immigrant) • Blencowes of Bicester, Kings Sut- ton, Sussex and Essex in England. The search continues for Reksten, Harald and Wayne Parrott. the origins of the others. Thus far, 2010. Early P-rr-tt families of North • Blincos of Slough/Windsor there have been no transatlantic DNA America: Myth & Fact on the Internet. matches, but DNA participation on the The P-rr-tt Society Family Notes. March Quite different are the Blincows of English side remains low. 26:8-12 Whilton/Long Buckby. Different again are the Blencoes of Wisconsin who There is one question in particular Useful links: derive from emigrants from Gawcott which lingers on. There is one Perrot • The P-rr-tt Society- has a vast near Buckingham, but they proved family that became prominent in data base of P-rr-tts in Britain, to be identical with the Blenkos of Wales and England, and which is easily Australia and New Zealand Bethnal Green. recognizable because their armorial http://www.p-rr-tt.org.uk/ bearings used a seal with 3 pears in it. It was not necessary to test two • Early Parrott Lineages of North There have been many attempts to link groups: in one the male line was bro- America http://freepages. the American Parrotts to this family, ken by an 18thC adoption another by a genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry. though none have held up under birth out of wedlock in the early 19thC. com/~parrott/parrottlines.shtml scrutiny. Some of these Perrots did make it to the new world, as a tombstone in • DNA Project: http://freepages. Members of one or two minor groups Barbados bears the family seal; there is genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry. have failed to trace male descendants. no evidence any made it to the colonies com/~parrott/ that would become the US. Seals have • The Perrot family of Wales been found for two of the original and England: http://freepages. Fig 5. The por- 1600’s Parrott families, and they are genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry. trait of Anthony not that of the Welsh/English family. com/~parrott/pembrokeshire. Blencowe in the Unfortunately, there are no known shtml chapel of Oriel living male descendants from the Welsh/ College, Oxford English family. Someday, perhaps DNA is based on the analysis from one of their remains may Blencowe DNA Project contemporary reveal if the family is still alive in the Jack Blencowe. Ancestry, 22 partici- portrait in The USA, or if the family really died out. pants. Provost’s dining room. Anthony For a more in-depth report, see these The Blencowe Families’ Association was Provost 1574 articles: does not have a formal DNA Project, - 1618; his neph- though we have used DNA testing. The ew Sir Henry built Reksten, Harald and Wayne name, in all its various spellings derives the present-day Parrott. 2009. A re-examination of from the village of Blencow near Blencowe Hall. the relationships among the Parrott Penrith; the earliest ancestor of whom families of the American Colonies much is known is 14thC Adam de in the 17th century. Magazine of Blencow. The line descending directly Virginia Genealogy Feb 47(1):21-43 & from Adam died out in 1927 but one May 47(2):129-147 of his sons (or more likely grandson) moved south to Marston St Lawrence
8 Journal of One-Name Studies, April-June 2011 Sisson DNA Project England. Men with similar Y-DNA to that Carol Sisson Regehr. Family Tree DNA of the descendants of Joseph Vick live in Established 2002. 97 participants. Orkney and Shetland. Finally, there is an African-American clan that descends I am one of the co-administrators of from slaves. the Sisson/Sissons DNA project. A second project, The Vick and In December 2008 we published an Allied Families DNA project, has both article reporting the first findings of male and female members and uses our project, in the journal “New Eng- autosomal DNA as well as DNA from land Ancestors” published by the New the X chromosome to augment the England Historic Genealogical Soci- efforts of the Vick Y-DNA project. ety. In the last year, the journal was Autosomal DNA has been useful renamed “American Ancestors”. in examining family traditions. For example, one family claimed land in We have found that there are at least the U.S. in 1902 based upon Choctaw 3 different unrelated lineages named ancestry. The family’s claim was Sisson or Sissons. We designate them denied due to lack of documentary the Richard, Robert, and Thomas lin- Fig 7. Perry Sisson who died in evidence of Choctaw ancestry. eages after three 17th century immi- Andersonville prison during the USA Autosomal DNA testing of project grants to North America. We have a Civil War members who are descendants of this possible 4th lineage discovered after family showed it was highly unlikely this article was published. We have test more participants in England to the family’s claim was true. found that for the spelling “Sissons”, try to find the birthplaces of Richard, some are related to the Robert line- Robert, and Thomas; and to find the For Further Information: age and some to the Richard lineage DNA result of the pre-Richard, pre- If you are interested in adding a DNA of the spelling “Sisson”. Robert, and pre-Thomas ancestors. Project to your one-name study, simply After the article was published we did contact me Susan Meates at DNA@one- We are very enthused about what get a new participant from Australia, name.org. I can provide references to the DNA study has done for our one- so we have added one more country various charts and articles on vendor name study. We believe that some of to our list. We have participants from selection, set up your project with prov- this information could not have been the U.S., Canada, England, Ireland, en marketing material, provide sample ferreted out with only conventional France, New Zealand, and Australia. emails/letters for recruiting, and answer paper research. any question you may have. If some- Our results are a stellar illustration one else has already set up a project for Our long-term goals are to deter- of what DNA is ideally suited for in your registered surname, there may still mine the DNA results of Richard, one-name studies. For a more in-depth be possible solutions. Robert, and Thomas themselves, to report, see this article: Carol Sisson Regehr, “Results of a Y-Chromosome For help, questions and to get start- DNA Study on Surnames Sisson and Sis- ed: [email protected]. sons,” New England Ancestors”, Vol. 9, nos. 5-6 (Holiday 2008), pp. 53-55. It is recommended that you write before taking action, since help includes setting up your DNA Project Vick DNA Project with proven marketing material. Larry Vick. Family Tree DNA. Estab- lished 2006. 65 Participants. 23andMe Vendors: for Autosomal testing. FamilyTreeDNA.com Ancestry.com The Vick Y-DNA Surname Project is DNAHeritage.com limited to male members since only men have a Y chromosome and thus Y-DNA. Vendor neutral comparison charts The project has members from nine by ISOGG (International Society of major clans. Two of the clans are English. Genetic Genealogists). One can be traced to Gloucestershire and the other to Sussex. Additionally, there Vendor Comparison from a Project are members who trace their ancestry to Administrator’s perception: German, Danish, and Norwegian clans. http://www.isogg.org/features.htm Most project members are Americans Fig 6. Barnabas SISSON was born 9 and are descendants of Joseph Vick Vendor comparison for Y-DNA tests May 1772 in Portsmouth, Newport of Lower Parish, Isle of Wight County, http://www.isogg.org/ydnachart.htm Co., Rhode Island, USA. He died 19 Virginia (who first appears in the Virginia Aug 1809 in Sakonnet River and was records in 1675). While it is highly likely Vendor comparison for mtDNA tests buried in Union Cemetery, Po16, Joseph was English, no records have http://www.isogg.org/mtdnachart.htm Portsmouth, Rhode Island. been found that prove he was born in n
Journal of One-Name Studies, April-June 2011 9 EASTLAKE A DATA MINING EXERCISE
Course Participants: Sue Mastel (Coordination), Kim Baldacchino (Report), Anne Brady; Alan Wellbelove; Valerie Jones; Joanne Baldwin
his report summarises the find- ings from a group exercise Themes Tundertaken in the Introduction to One-Name Studies course offered OTHER: by Pharos Teaching and Tutoring Electoral Rolls 88 BMD Limited. The course tutor Helen Mailing Lists & Contact Sites Non-Conformist Records 12 Census Osborn challenged course partici- Pictures References pants to find as many occurrences of Stories & Histories 220 Court Records a surname of our choosing within Wills & Administrations Miscellaneous Lists Directories two weeks. Team members included 64 Sue Mastel, Kim Baldacchino, Anne Family Trees Brady, Alan Wellbelove, Valerie Migration Jones and Joanne Baldwin. 41 Military Records
We selected the surname EASTLAKE, 5 40 Printed Media 23 including the variant EASTLACK and 92 Other other variant names as identified Chart 1. during the exercise. According to ancestry.com, this is an English surname from Cornwall and Devon. It originated as a habitational name from Eastlake • Decide how to divide the of one person trying to in Devon, named in Old English as east research – we divided by country capture everyone’s progress. lacu the ‘eastern stream’. • Do the research and capture In addition, it made our results in the group research log progress visible at all times Number of Occurrences Found • Keep team informed of progress which was motivating in itself and problems and enabled us to spot key • Do the final report gaps in our research. It isn’t EASTLAKE 49,499 clear though if everyone was This approach worked well for us. comfortable with using Google EASTLACK 13,680 As one team member said, ‘We have Docs or what was expected in Other Variants 34,125 done brilliantly. Most geographical all the fields in the research areas have been covered adequately Total Occurrences 97,304 log. We should have ensured and some comprehensively’. As with that everyone was comfortable any group effort though, there are with the technology. We found 97,304 occurrences of things we would do differently in • The Research Log itself could be the surname, detailed in a shared future collaborations: improved by using data validation research log that we managed using features to specify an allowable Google Docs. The surname occurred • It was never going to be possible set of values for each field. Key in 585 references. We were over- to delegate tasks at the outset, fields like country and theme whelmed by what can be found in as we had no idea how much need to be consistent to allow such a short time. time or enthusiasm each team sorting, counting and summing member had for the project. for data analysis. In addition, we OUR APPROACH We should have defined clear should have provided separate Our approach was straightforward: tasks at the outset and invited columns to hold the locations • Decide who would lead the individuals to pick what they where detailed indices and/or exercise were prepared to do. Also we images are stored for any of the • Decide on a name to research should have asked the group individual collections. Many of • Agree that we would also search to be more specific about what the detailed indices were saved for variants resources they could access. into spreadsheets during this • Agree some basic guidance • Google Docs enabled us to exercise, which will be of great • Decide how to record the infor- share our research log which help when the study is taken mation did away with the burden forward.
10 Journal of One-Name Studies, April-June 2011 When we look at the actual Countries occurrences of the surname, we get a different distribution to that seen in the references. We can see from the 26 14 blue barchart that the highest volume British Isles of occurrences came from Family 150 Australia Trees, followed by Printed Media (mainly newspapers). The newspaper Canada occurrences have not been analysed New Zealand to determine if the name Eastlake is 37 United States being used for a placename rather 279 than a surname, so the Printed Media 35 Worldwide OTHER: figure can be expected to reduce Asia 35 Other significantly following analysis. Continental Europe Germany The volume of occurrences says India Jamaica (nil occur) nothing about the usefulness of the Bermuda information. In the case of Family South Africa Chart 2. Trees and Printed Media, it is generally difficult to extract a list of the individual surnames to use in analysis. In addition, the quality of Family Tree information varies greatly. Because of the high REFERENCES We didn’t have time to do Google volume and these other difficulties, Chart 1 opposite shows the types of searches on the surnames, which we recommend that the other types of references we used. Of the 585 total would have turned up a wide variety of indexed sources be tackled first when references, over half of them were additional sources. This type of open- trying to investigate a surname. either Birth, Marriage, Death (BMD) ended search is especially difficult or Census listings. However, we found with a surname such as Eastlake, VARIANTS the surname and its variants in a wide which also occurs as a placename. One of the trickier parts was to variety of sources. decide how to handle variants. We We only have one reference for Asia knew of the Eastlack variant, but For the Printed Media theme, we and none for South America. We’ve otherwise we did not know what did not count each newspaper as analysed the IGI holdings and we forms the Eastlake surname might an individual reference. Rather, we don’t believe there are any significant take. One of the team members counted all the newspapers of a given populations of Eastlake or variants on did significant early analysis on the country as one reference. Otherwise, these continents. However, it would be variants and made recommendations newspapers would have accounted worthwhile to better understand the to the rest of the team on how to for the vast majority of our references. sources available for these locations. search for them using wildcards For example, ancestry.com identifies (where the search engines permitted). 480 U.S. newspapers that contain the SURNAME OCCURRENCES Preliminary visual analysis of the 5600 Eastlake surname or its variants. US International Genealogical Index (IGI) and 1170 British IGI entries, Surname Occurrences by Theme We sought a worldwide investigation catalogued using wildcard searches, 35000 of references as shown in chart 2 30208 yielded over 50 possibilities for 30000 above. Most references were for the 25000 21734 variants and deviants. Although our British Isles and the United States, but 20000 18316 data shows derivations from Eastlake, 15000 11209 we also found significant numbers 10646 Eastlack or E*s*l*k*, it seems likely 10000 of references in other former British 5000 that the original name was Eastlake 5191 0 1099 501 colonies. There are also many sources 93 or Estlake, from which Eastlack and now that cover worldwide references. E*s*l*k* all derived, based on the dates of earliest appearance. We feel that we achieved represent- ative coverage of the available refer- ences. Key omissions include: Surname Occurrences by Country SURNAME DISTRIBUTION: 39702 WORLDWIDE 40000 The number of United States references 33485 Time didn’t permit a good analysis of 30000 on ancestry.com was so high that we 22594 the distribution of our results, especially didn’t have time to investigate the many 20000 complicated by the fact that many other sources of US genealogical data. occurrences of the surname Eastlake 10000 are likely to be placenames rather than 545 476 We didn’t have time to check out Cyn- 0 456 44 the surname. However, as a preliminary di’s List, which contains over 270,000 view, we observed the data shown in links to genealogical websites. the following table:
Journal of One-Name Studies, April-June 2011 11 Location Surname Occurrences British Isles Predominantly Eastlake, but also many occurrences of E*s*l*k* United States Predominantly Eastlake, but also many occurrences of Eastlack and E*s*l*k* Australia Predominantly Eastlake, but also many occurrences of E*s*l*k* Bermuda Eastlack Asia Eastlake Canada Eastlake Germany Eastlake India Eastlake Ireland Eastlake New Zealand Eastlake
Bermuda is the anomalous country, England and Wales through the the Medieval Soldier database, where Francis Eastlake (or Estlake) census years. Es(t)lick was chosen as identifying him as a man-at-arms sailed to from Plymouth in about a representative E*s*l*k* variant. in service to Sir Thomas Kyrielle 1660 as a Quaker minister. He and The results are summarised on the and John Beaufort, Duke of his family then emigrated to the opposite page. Somerset. He is recorded on an United States and started the Eastlack expedition to France in 1443. family. Sources say he was outspoken, The evidence strongly supports This is the earliest recorded use which helps to explain how many the hypothesis that the Eastlake of the name that we have found. sources report on his very short stay surname originated in Cornwall or in Bermuda. Devon, most likely in the Bodmin • Francis Eastlake/Eastlack (born area. It is interesting that Ancestry. circa 1635): Francis was the These preliminary results support com identifies it as a habitational Quaker minister who emigrated the view that migration was early name from a place called Eastlake in to the United States from Plym- to the United States and Australia. Devon and it would be worthwhile to outh and started the Eastlack In Canada and New Zealand, where understand their basis for identifying family. He and his wife Marga- sample size is sufficiently large for the originating location as being in ret suffered much persecution some analysis, numbers of deaths Devon rather than Cornwall. in England and Bermuda before significantly exceed births. Is this due settling in New Jersey. He wrote to the availability of records or is it Similar to other surnames that a book on his religious beliefs related to later migration? Sample members of the group have studied, while in Bermuda. size for all other countries is small and such as Adamthwaite and Estall, the might indicate temporary stays. One Eastlake surname appears to have • Charles Locke Eastlake (1836- of the participants identified that originated in one location with 1901): From Wikipedia, we Passenger Lists to the United States migration slowly occurring to major know that Charles was a British were overwhelmingly Eastlake rather cities and eventually to spreading architect and furniture design- than Eastlack. This might be explained across England. Also similar to these er, nephew of Sir Charles Lock by how early the Eastlack name took other surnames, the Eastlake surname Eastlake, painter and President root in the United States. appears to be extremely scarce in of the Royal Academy. He start- other parts of the British Isles. Not ed the Eastlake Movement, a SURNAME DISTRIBUTION: unexpectedly, overseas migration is design reform movement where BRITISH ISLES dominated by former colonies of the he ‘posited that furniture and Based on our present knowledge, British Empire. decor in people’s homes should the earliest persistent recorded uses be made by hand or machine of the Eastlake surname were in Corn- The Es(t)lick distribution tables workers who took personal pride wall/Devon. The Eastlake surname clearly show that it also originated in their work.’ We have found came first in 1558, Eastlack shortly in Cornwall or Devon. It then follows many references to Charles and thereafter in 1591 and E*s*l*k* did a migration pattern analogous to his Eastlake Movement. not appear until 1653. Whilst the Eastlake and other surnames that we first two may be the result of which are currently studying. • Alfred Eastlack Driscoll (1902- parishes were included in the IGI, it 1975): Alfred was a US politician, seems significant that the third didn’t EASTLAKES OF HISTORICAL a member of the Republican appear until nearly a century later. SIGNIFICANCE Party. He first served as a Senator We’ve already discovered several for New Jersey and then became Using county breakdowns available noteworthy Eastlakes in our research: Governor of New Jersey from from The Genealogist website, we 1947 to 1954. It seems fitting identified the distribution of the • Roger Eslak (1400s): An intrigu- that he served the state in which Eastlake and Estlick surnames in ing mention of Roger is made in
12 Journal of One-Name Studies, April-June 2011 the Eastlack family originated in • Applying What We’ve Learned • Finding Value in Collaboration: the 1600s. about Organising our Studies: The amount of information The volume of information, the that the group could assemble • Harry Raymond Eastlack (1933- time constraints and the need in two weeks far exceeds what 1973): According to Wikipedia, to work with a group forced us any individual could have done. Harry ‘died from fibrodysplasia to organise the exercise and the In addition, each team member ossificans progressiva (FOP), data we collected. Making use brought their own unique expe- a rare and poorly understood of a shared Research Log was rience to bear on identifying disease in which the bone repair particularly valuable. sources. Collaborative techniques mechanism runs out of control, can be applied to any one-name turning other tissue like muscles • Finding Out about many New study, even rare surnames. and tendons into bone. Eastlack Sources: Capturing the URLs permitted his skeleton to be has made it possible to use our Post-Course Note: preserved for scientific research, results in any one-name study. The results of this exercise are and it is today on display at the proving very valuable to continuing Mutter Museum of The College • Learning Techniques for Saving research into the Eastlake surname, of Physicians of Philadelphia. Information: Several team mem- identifying locations and providing His skeleton is one of the few bers had the opportunity to store indices to the many sources available. existing in the world and a the detailed indices behind the In addition, research planning is valuable asset to the study of summary numbers. In this case, simplified and results can be easily the disease.’ practice makes perfect and we organised. A significant portion can now capture large volumes of the 1800s has already been THE VALUE OF THE EXERCISE of data far more efficiently. In reconstructed for the British Isles and Participants found the exercise valu- addition, the data is being cap- variant names have now clarified, able for the following reasons: tured in a manner that makes with Eastlake and Eslick being the subsequent analysis easier. prevalent names in England. n
Distribution of the EASTLAKE surname in census years 1841-1901 – England & Wales (source: The Genealogist, accessed 10 July 2010) TOTAL E&W TOTAL Census Year Berkshire Channel I. Cheshire Cornwall Devon Durham Essex Gloucs Hampshire Kent Lancs London Middx Northants Northumbs Pembrokes Somerset Staffs Suffolk Surrey Sussex Westm’land Worcs Yorks Crew Lists 1841 11 43 8 10 1 7 2 82 1851 21 51 18 7 2 99 1861 1 30 42 22 11 2 8 2 118 1871 13 35 1 60 2 5 11 3 5 1 136 1881 9 54 10 1 60 6 11 4 155 1891 8 9 28 43 1 1 1 13 73 4 2 3 7 5 4 3 1 1 207 1901 29 40 7 2 8 2 1 68 40 11 5 1 4 5 1 224 all years 1 8 9 141 308 18 2 9 2 3 14 309 12 7 65 53 15 4 1 7 15 1 7 9 1 1021 Distribution of surname ES(T)LICK in census years 1841 – 1901 in England and Wales Census Year Channel I. Cardiganshire Cornwall Cumberland Derbyshire Devon Durham Glamorgan Kent Lancs London Middx Somerset Suffolk Surrey Yorks E&W TOTAL
1841 31 6 4 41 1851 2 84 5 4 10 105 1861 92 8 5 4 1 110 1871 7 106 10 13 136 1881 53 9 12 23 12 15 1 2 1 2 130 1891 50 1 17 10 8 1 2 89 1901 54 9 17 6 23 6 1 1 117 all years 2 7 470 9 1 67 50 9 6 43 53 5 1 2 1 2 728 Journal of One-Name Studies, April-June 2011 13 One-Name Archaeology? by Derek Palgrave
s I was one of the weakest canopy bearing a composite shield of history students in the class at eighteen quarterings. Aschool, my teacher suggested that I visit a remote church in North That first visit to North Barningham Norfolk where, he said, there were had profound consequences – I some interesting monuments. As a realised that I needed not only to teenager I was not into monuments explore potential genealogical links so I did not take any action at the but also to appreciate the importance time. A year or so later, when I had of heraldic symbolism. We continued acquired a tandem, jointly with my to visit the church from time to then girlfriend, now my wife, we set time gradually introducing more out for North Barningham, St Peter. of our relatives to these unique The church was difficult to find and, memorials. Later on in the early sixties when we eventually arrived, the door I began contacting Palgraves listed was locked. in telephone directories as well as systematically collecting references We collected the key from the to the surname in the published address given on the notice-board, literature and original documents. In opened the door and entered a 1968 I met Patrick Palgrave-Moore, small but charming country church. who was launching the Norfolk However our main purpose was to and Norwich Genealogical Society, see the monuments, some of which and this led to an expansion of our were in the north aisle and others research effort to cover rather more in the chancel. Dominating the east archival material. end of the aisle was a magnificent 17th century tomb-chest with grey Under Threat marble columns supporting a curved In 1969 we heard that, under the pediment below which were two oval terms of the Pastoral Measure1, there niches containing busts of a man and was a petition to have St Peter’s his wife. The whole structure was declared redundant. It had not been Fig 1. Monument in north aisle to embellished with heraldic shields. in regular use for twenty years or so; it Augustine and Elizabeth Palgrave. On reading the inscriptions we were was very neglected and the churchyard amazed to discover that the couple was seriously overgrown. The main manorial family and circulated this commemorated were Sir Augustine provisions of the Measure were either as widely as possible among the Palgrave and his wife, Dame Elizabeth. the disposal of the building to be used many living Palgraves whom I had for some other purpose or the removal located, seeking their support for This was indeed a revelation and of its roof so it became, to all intents vesting the Church in the RCF. We a moment to savour – was I related and purposes, a ruin. There was also also received considerable backing to these people? Who featured on a third option allowing the church to from the Norfolk Churches Trust led the other monuments? Nearby, on be vested in the Redundant Churches by Lady Harrod, prominent in local the floor, was a 16th century brass to Fund on the grounds of architectural conservation matters. She advocated Henry Palgrave and his wife, Ann. In or historical merit. our organising some services in the the chancel there was another, but church, the first of which took place less elaborate, tomb-chest to John Naturally our concern was the in June 1973 to celebrate the Patron Palgrave together with a ledger stone fate of the monuments in which Saint’s Day. This was well attended in the floor to another Sir Augustine the Victoria and Albert Museum by local people and several members Palgrave. Furthermore, high on had already expressed an interest. of the Palgrave families who lived in the north wall of the chancel was a It was our view that they should the Norfolk area. very ornate sculptured monument stay where they were, as markers to Margaret Pope, née Palgrave, for the remains of those that The press coverage2 of this event showing her as a kneeling figure in a they commemorated. I drafted a was very supportive and it became recess flanked by angels, and under a pamphlet describing the monuments clear that more services needed to be and their association with the organised and who better to take on
14 Journal of One-Name Studies, April-June 2011 this responsibility than the Palgraves. been given away before vesting, so it Later that year we arranged a was necessary to borrow chairs from gathering at a convenient venue just elsewhere. Furthermore there was no outside Norwich where those present pulpit, lectern or altar rails. After much agreed that a formal association discussion with the RCF (now referred would be beneficial and this became to as the Churches Conservation the launch-pad for the Palgrave Trust), the Palgrave Society managed Society. Two major advantages to acquire replacements for all the ensued: we had a group identity, missing items from other redundant when communicating with the various churches which were no longer in use church authorities to persuade them for regular worship. to conserve St Peter’s, and we had a pool of concerned members who Many other appropriate events were able to take part in regular have taken place including weddings, working parties in the church and christenings, a Flower Festival and, over churchyard at North Barningham. This the last few years, Heritage Weekends combination proved very effective with exhibitions and guided tours. and after instituting a programme of We have also listed the gravestones voluntary maintenance sessions both in the churchyard, compiled a church inside and outside the building, the guide3 and published a number of Society organised further services in monographs4,5 featuring the church, 1974, 1975 and 1976. These efforts its history and its heraldry. demonstrated beyond all doubt that there was a convincing argument in Other Surname Links favour of conservation so there was I am sure we are not alone in our Fig 3. Wall monument in chancel to much rejoicing when the decision was endeavours and I am aware that Margaret, daughter of John Palgrave. made by the church authorities that St there are other members of the Guild Peter’s would be vested in the RCF for who have links with specific churches Having been prompted by a teacher the foreseeable future. associated with their one-name to look at some ancient monuments study. The Swinnertons have strong in a remote Norfolk church brought The Palgrave Society has continued to associations with the church in the about a change in my attitude to contribute to the regular maintenance village of Swinnerton, similarly the history for ever. Imagine my delight of the church and churchyard and for Filbys with Filby Church in Norfolk. a few years ago when I was able to almost forty years has been arranging The Alabasters have a special link with speak to that teacher’s daughter, who an annual service every June. On each Hadleigh church and the Surmans with now lives in Australia, but then on occasion this has involved finding a that at Tredington. Even if a family holiday in UK and attending a Guild clergyman to take the service and a does not have an obvious connection Conference. Although her father was choir to lead the singing, and running with a particular church it is worth no longer alive, she was sure he would a publicity campaign to encourage checking the records of Memorial have appreciated the outcome. n a worthwhile congregation. Initially Inscriptions in Record Offices, there were problems associated with Libraries and FHS collections with a seating as many of the pews had view to arranging to photograph any relevant gravestones in churchyards References and cemeteries. 1. Elliot-Binns, M.F., A Guide to the Incidentally heraldic reference works Pastoral Measure, Church Infor- often provide clues to places with mation Office, Westminster, 1969 known links to armigers where there could be tombs, hatchments or other 2. Eastern Daily Press & Eastern tangible archaeological evidence Evening News, 30 Jun 1973 related to a specific one-name study. Material of this type is increasingly 3. St Peter, North Barningham, A at risk so it is important to record Guide to the Church, Palgrave it and, if at all possible, assist in its Society, 1996 conservation. It is also worth checking specialist museum collections for 4. North Barningham, the Church, artefacts known to have been owned the Hall and the Palgrave Fam- or used by a bearer of the registered ily, Palgrave Society, 1974 surname. Occasionally items appear on Ebay and, almost by chance, we 5. Heraldry at North Barningham have been able to acquire a few Church, Palgrave Society, 1976 objects including a medal, a spoon and, in a few instances, books. Fig 2. Brass in north aisle to Henry & Ann Palgrave
Journal of One-Name Studies, April-June 2011 15 The Moulder
Archive By Sue Horsman With thanks to Jenny Tudbury and Peter Copsey for their assistance
he Derbyshire Guild members who attended a meeting in Sep- Ttember were unanimous that this article ought to be written, and that as I had initially suggested it, then I should write it. Oh Dear – me and my big mouth!
First decision – what to call the arti- cle; something snappy to get the readers attention? Definitely not – that would be disrespectful, especial- ly after viewing the contents of what we found ourselves dealing with.
Going back a few weeks in time, Jenny Tudbury, the Regional Rep for Derbyshire was contacted by the Guild Archive Manager, to say that a Derbyshire member had died, and that his family wished to donate his research to the Guild. Could she organise something? Fortunately there was a Derbyshire group meet- John Moses, Sue Horsman and Andrew Apps inspecting the Moulder research ing coming up, and John Moses, one of the attendees lived near to the member number 425 and had joined (or lack of them). Seeing the ‘Moulder late member. Jenny arranged for the Guild in about 1983. At that time Archive’, sadly no longer neatly filed John to collect the research, which he had moved away from his family in sequence, really brought it home he duly did, and brought to the and was living in Plymouth where a to all of us that several things needed meeting. The large cardboard boxes few years later he married Joyce. attention in our own studies. full of ring binders were duly depos- ited in Jenny’s lounge. In later years Michael and Joyce Firstly, what would happen to it moved to Chesterfield in Derbyshire when we ourselves went to join the Our meeting discussing brick walls where earlier this year Michael ancestors? I am definitely taking a list and different archives went ahead sadly died. of questions with me when I depart as planned, followed by lunch on this world. the patio on a sunny but chilly Sep- Getting started tember day. Roy Dunicliffe had to On entering the lounge we found Have we anyone who is interested in leave soon after lunch, so whilst the ourselves looking at over 30 years taking over our study? Have we told rest of us were still eating, he went worth of research into the Moulder anyone (or put in our will) what is to to take a look at the boxes. He soon family. There were 7 large boxes, be done with all our hard work? If we returned looking shell shocked, and each containing binders containing have nobody to leave it to, have we said ‘Crikey I wish I had not seen it’. all manner of research and corre- said that we want it to be donated to spondence, all contents being indi- the Guild? After lunch, we adjourned to the vidually filed in plastic wallets. We lounge with cups of tea to see what were all lost for words and were Having made plans for its future, is John had brought. unable to describe our feelings, our research in a fit state to be handed other than ‘What on earth are they over? We may understand our own fil- Background going to do with that’ ing systems, but does anyone else? Is Michael David Moulder was born the research filed logically and labelled in 1947 in London. At 16 he left It was however food for thought, as so that our successor can find their way school and like his father, Frederick we were all thinking about our own around it? Have we made it obvious he became a Postman. He was Guild individual studies and filing systems that our successor needs our computer
16 Journal of One-Name Studies, April-June 2011 files? Where are they stored and what records, there is adequate back- The whole experience has been packages do we use? Have we labelled up of the e-library. Copies of the extremely thought provoking for all our photographs? We may know e-library are held, not only with the everyone involved, showing us that who people are but will our successor? e-librarian, but with the webmaster we all need to consider the future of and on a hard-drive back-up kept in our research. Oh dear, not many ‘ticks in the box’ the store. Also, the Guild would be so far! happy to return the original paper We must have all spent many material to the originator, or his/her years researching, and have experi- The Guild Archive family, should this be preferred to enced the highs and lows: of ‘eureka Back to our pile of boxes. The master placing it in store after digitising. moments’ to brick walls that simply plan is that at the next conference will not be breached. Added to how Jenny will hand over the boxes to Peter We decided that before we gave much have we spent on our research? Copsey, who is the Guild Archivist. the boxes to Peter, we should try and We would not want all this to be lost. sort the contents of the boxes into Peter explained to us that the meaningful groups, so I returned to Going back to our Derbyshire group Guild employs a digitising company Jenny’s house a couple of days later meeting and the topic delayed in that will take the papers and digit- and we did this. We found at least order to view the Moulder research: ise them. Most papers are suitable; 20 years of correspondence from we are now all looking forward to the the exceptions are anything that is which it was apparent that over the next meeting when Jenny Tudbury stiffly bound and cannot be laid flat years Michael had helped many peo- will be giving a PowerPoint presenta- and anything that is very large (over ple throughout the world with the tion on the Guild On-line Archive. Is A0). Trees written on wallpaper are research into their own branches that a coincidence or what? a particular problem. When the and twigs of the Moulder name. papers are returned, they are boxed And finally, as I am completing this into cardboard archive boxes and Also as part of the exercise we real- article I see an announcement in the taken to the Guild store in Romford. ised that there were a large quantity Guild Members Room of a new facil- The Guild is about to increase the of Marriage Certificates. We decided ity for members to nominate a ‘gene- amount of racking in the store to that it would be a fitting legacy to alogical next of kin’ and to determine increase its capacity. But a time will Michael’s work if these were sub- what should happen to their Guild come when the Guild will need to mitted to the Guild Marriage Index, Archive and Profile pages. decide whether to destroy some of so I agreed to take them and input the paper archives (relying solely on details to a spreadsheet prior to I for one will be taking recent events the digitised images) or rent a big- submission. We also decided that I as a ‘wake up call’, as I’m sure will the ger store (possible budget problem). should contact any Guild members other Derbyshire members who were where I found a Moulder marriage present at our September meeting. n Just in case anyone is worried about to a registered name, to offer them the thought of destroying paper details of the marriage.
Who Do You Think You Are? Live 2011 By Corrinne Goodenough
elcome to all our new Thank you to all the Guild members Barbara Harvey (Loverock ONS) met members (47) who joined who gave up their time to help on the Eileen Robbins (see below), who visited Wthe Guild during WDYTYA? Guild Stand or in the “Ask the Experts” the Guild Stand to see if anyone was It was great to meet you during area. You were fantastic and the Guild researching the Loverock name. Barbara the event and we look forward to couldn’t have managed without you. and Eileen share a common ancestor meeting you again, perhaps at a and are now swapping notes! n Seminar or maybe Conference?
During the show we demonstrated the latest version of Surname Atlas, answered enquiries regarding regis- tered surnames, and passed on contact details to visitors.
We met many Guild members and friends who visited the Stand to say hello and were delighted to see you all.
We were very busy, but not so busy that we couldn’t introduce members from opposite sides of the globe, to each other.
Journal of One-Name Studies, April-June 2011 17 Marriage Marriage Challenge Challenge Celebrates its 6th Birthday Update By Peter Copsey
t is now over 6 years since the first differentiates us from most county Marriage Challenge (MC) began. family history societies. During this 6-year period IThis was in February 2005 when “ Howard Benbrook and myself visited Challenges covering a total of 210 about 90,000 marriage the London Metropolitan Archives Registration Districts (as at 1st March with a search list of 160 marriages 2011) have been performed. Some entries have been found within the Pancras Registration District. have been undertaken in stages in and fully transcribed We were not sure how many we would order to limit the size of each task ” find in a day and whether it was “a and there have been a few Repeat- task too far”. But the experience was Challenges. Bearing in mind that MC so rewarding, the results so satisfying has been running for 6 years, it is very and the response so encouraging that suitable to take on Repeats of the Below is the list of forthcoming Marriage Challenge took off and has early Challenges as this will help our Challenges. All members are encour- flourished ever since. newer members and those who were aged to send their requests to the not appreciative of the benefits of MC Challengers by e-mail, hopefully using During this 6-year period about when it first began. Even a second the standard “requests.xls” spread- 90,000 marriage entries have been repeat is not unreasonable and I hope sheet on the MC web-page. However found and fully transcribed - helping to be offering this for West Ham RD most Challengers will accept requests many of us to make progress with our later in the year. in any form. Send the listing extract- one-name studies. When you consider ed from the GRO Marriage index the cost of purchasing a certificate Could you do a Challenge? (FreeBMD will give almost all of them) from the GRO today at £9.25p each; Marriage Challenge is rewarding for the named Registration District this amounts to a benefit of £830,000 and enjoyable and you will be helping between the years given (Year, Quarter, to our members whilst expenses your fellow Guild members with their Surname, First names, Full GRO ref- claimed by Challengers have been studies. You could share the task with erence). Challengers will search for under £6000. But all our volunteers a friend or another Guild member. and often find your marriages in the have given to the Guild many, If you think you could become a deposited Church registers and then many valuable hours of their time Challenger, I look forward to hearing send you the full particulars. n undertaking Challenges for which we from you. Contact me, the Marriage are most grateful. I believe this is part Challenge Co-ordinator, on marriage- of the strength of the Guild where [email protected]. Generally, many of us are willing to donate expenses incurred during a Challenge our time to help other members and will be repaid by the Guild.
Registration District and Period Deadline Challenger Challenger’s e-mail
Settle 1837 - 1911 30 Apr 2011 Karen Burnell [email protected]
Risbridge 1837 - 1911 1 May 2011 Sandra Stevens [email protected]
Alnwick 1837 - 1911 1 May 2011 Sue Horsman [email protected]
Pateley Bridge 1837 - 1911 1 May 2011 Karen Burnell [email protected]
Poole Stage 2 1882 - 1911 1 Jun 2011 Jenny Compton [email protected]
Maldon 1837 - 1911 5 Jun 2011 Peter Copsey [email protected]
18 Journal of One-Name Studies, April-June 2011 Killing ‘em off
by Roger Goacher
n important part of family the Guild Wiki on the website under reconstruction in a One-Name the section for a particular country. AStudy is to trying to find the death or burial of an individual. This But what about more recent deaths? is often easier to do for those born The Death Indexes for England & in the late 18th or 19th century rather Wales on Ancestry go up to 2005 than the 20th century. and on Findmypast to 2006. These may help; but in my ONS I have far Following a family through succes- too many individuals named John sive censuses can identify when a or Daniel, Mary or Jane to positively spouse is first recorded as a widow identify a particular death; increased or widower. Checks with BMD index- mobility often meant that they had es often identify the likely death moved well away from where they details if the first name or location were born by the time they died. is unusual. But they won’t identify the exact date, cause or place of Most national newspapers and some death, nor will they show where the of the large regional ones are online, deceased was buried. Buying death but searching for a particular death is certificates to get the full details is very ‘hit and miss’. Most local papers an expensive business. are not online, but often contain an announcement that would be very You may have inherited Victorian or useful to someone’s ONS. Edwardian Mourning Cards, similar to the one illustrated, which provide For some time a few of us have fuller details, but they rarely give all been scanning our local papers for the information that we would like. Guild ‘names’ and providing details and probably ‘knock off’ some of my of announcements to help other outstanding database entries. An Internet check may provide an members. This is so valuable that obituary if the individual was noted in the Committee has adopted the idea The Guild Newswatch Project is an some way. Many historical newspapers as an official Guild project – The exciting development, but we need are now online, and cemetery and Newswatch Project. more volunteers to look at THEIR local crematoria records are increasingly paper. The more ‘watchers’ we have being indexed and being made Since the project was announced the more likely that YOU will receive available. Many local Family History by the co-ordinator, Jim Isard, in something to help your ONS. We Societies have published memorial the July 2010 Journal more than 70 particularly need more participants and cemetery records for churches members have joined. Full details from outside the UK. Announcements in their area, and the National Burial of those taking part, and what found to help another Guild member Index for England & Wales may help is involved, can be found in that can far outweigh the limited time pinpoint a death we are seeking. Journal or on the Newswatch web involved. page http://www.one-name.org/ Full details of sources worth checking members/newswatch.html. The value of the project is shown for historical deaths can be found in by an email Jim Isard received from a Since the Newswatch Project member: was launched I have received two GWYNETH LOUISA GOACHER (GWEN) announcements relating to my ONS – “Interestingly this morning, after Of Wayland Avenue, Crawley Down, passed away one from a Canadian Newspaper and receiving your transcript we spent peacefully at St Catherine’s Hospice on 21 August 2010, aged 68, after a long illness. one from Britain. an extensive 3 hours putting a lot of She will be sadly missed by her beloved husband pieces into place. I would rate the Terry, children Mark and Christine, daughter-in-law Who wouldn’t want to receive an Newswatch Project to be as beneficial Sarah, grandchildren Jonathan, Kylie and Joss, and all her other family and friends. announcement such as that shown? as the Marriage Challenge.” n Her funeral service will take place at All the details given for three The Surrey & Sussex Crematorium, today generations should enable me to slot (Thursday 26 August) at 3.30pm. the family in to one of my trees easily
Journal of One-Name Studies, April-June 2011 19 Pharos Advanced One –Name Studies Course Assignment Some Speculations on the Origin of the Quested Surname
By Penelope Burton
he most famous QUESTED of this in order to make it clear that my true variants for identified Quested all never really existed. Adela contributions to the ONS are particu- individuals which included QUISTEDE, is the heroine of A Passage to larly concerned with two areas; recon- QUISTED, QUESTAD and QUESTEAD. T1 India , to whom something terrible stituting the London QUESTEDs and may or may not have happened in the looking at the origins of the name. The Soundex Matches from the Marabar Caves. This novel could be a NameThesaurus11 website are shown metaphor for the mysterious origin of The study is small, with 212 occur- below: the QUESTED name; wild speculations rences in the 1881 Census3, 314 in about the truth are made, and what the 1911 Census4, 251 in the National Quaistedt, Quastad, Questad, really happened is never satisfactorily Trust Names dataset for 19985 and Questat, Questead, Questet, explained! In this essay I shall examine 301 in the ONS Surname database for Questod, Questwod, Questwood, how I set about discovering the name’s England and Wales6. The Censuses, Quickstad, Quickstead, Quicksted, origins, and describe some avenues BMDs and Parish Records all show Quigstad, Quistad, Quistead, Quisted, explored, including some leading to the name concentrated in Kent, Quisthoudt, Quisthout, Qwested. probable red herrings. This is a work although small numbers were found in progress, but we are exhorted by in London from the 16th century, The site also gives 31 Namex matches fellow GOONS such as Peter Walker2 the name proliferating there from and 139 Metaphone matches for to publish, and I hope that by doing the 1850s onwards. In the present QUESTED. None of these names so more expert one-namers, etymolo- day QUESTEDs are also found in the contain ‘QUER-‘. This is discussed gists, philologists, mappers and others Anglophone “Old Commonwealth” further in the linguistics section below. than I might be able to suggest which countries and the USA. roads we should follow. I made primitive attempts at First steps: but are they in the mapping the surname data, using the The QUESTED Study in outline right direction? basic distribution maps available on My husband, growing up in Berk- When I first started researching Ancestry, The Genealogist, National shire, knew that QUESTED was a rare QUESTED I looked in all the surname Trust Names and also The British surname, and that his family had dictionaries I could find. The name Surname Atlas and GenMap from roots deep in the roughest areas of does not occur at all in a number Archer Software12. This exercise the East End of London. Most of the of them, presumably due to its revealed what was already known; that (handful) of QUESTEDs in the London rarity. Barber7 claims that it is ‘from the QUESTEDs were predominantly phone books were known to his Quenstadt; a German loc[ative] and located in Kent throughout the 19th family. When he took a student job p[ersonal] n[ame]’. Bardsley8 agrees Century. It also demonstrated that, working on the Cross-Channel ferries that it is ‘Local, “of Quested.”’ from for more detailed analysis, the data out of Dover, he was astonished to the suffix –stead, but states ‘I cannot needed to be more consistent with find that, in Kent, the name was more find the spot’. The earliest reference regard to how the locations were common, with shop signs and adverts to the name which he gives is 1622. stored, in order that it could be exhibiting the name QUESTED. His Reaney9 says that it is “of uncertain properly geocoded in some way. I family, along with others I have met origin, probably a habitat name from experimented, not very successfully, subsequently, supposed the name the lost village of Questers (earlier with Google Earth13. The recent to be of French origin. This may be Quernstede) in the Parish of Samp- Guild of One-Name Studies Mapping because the name ‘looks’ French, but ford, Essex”. The Oxford Diction- Seminar, however, has shown how no-one has produced any evidence for ary of Surnames10 echoes Reaney, Google Earth and applications which this. I decided to study the name three and states that; ‘A quern is a stone make the most of its many features, years ago, collecting the census and handmill for grinding corn, from Old are the way forward for one-namers. BMD data which was readily available English, cweorn ‘quern, hand-mill’ + online. I stored the data in Family Tree stede; site’. I was unable to find the From reading books on surname Maker 2006 and also in Excel spread- mysterious village of Questers in any research, such as those by George sheets. I then found that QUESTED modern gazetteer. Redmonds14 and Colin Rogers,15 I real- was registered with GOONS and con- ized both that the surname was likely tacted Helen Smith, who is the coordi- From my initial BMD and Census data to have originated in Kent, and that nator of the study. She has collected collection (which were bedevilled by earlier records of the name and any QUESTED data over many years, and mistranscriptions on the various Fam- variants were needed to progress the we are now collaborating. I recount ily History websites), I found some search for the origin of the name.
20 Journal of One-Name Studies, April-June 2011 Linguistic byways At this point, my tutor on the Genealogy research skills course at Birkbeck16, and GOONS member, Mari Alderman suggested that there were a number of Kent family- and place-names where ‘Qu’ and ‘W’ are transposed, for example, Wickenden and Quickenden and Wharmby and Quarmby, and that I might look at WESTED as a source of the name.
David Crystal17 briefly discusses this shift between w- wh- and qw- which is evident in lay subsidies from East Anglia around 1300. Others have demonstrated that the Latin
There is only one WESTED place- name in the ARCHI19 gazetteer. And it is in Kent, just where the M20 joins the M25, between Eynsford and Crockenhill. However, this is some forty miles northwest of the the archivist for the Farningham and than NameX or the extensive and Ashford area where the QUESTEDs Eynsford Local History Society23 , through bewildering Metaphone list which have been found for 500 years. Today their website, and was informed that the search returns. His reply (via there is just a Wested Farmhouse on her earliest reference to the location email) is interesting: Wested Lane. I searched the National WESTED was from 1545. I could not find Archives20 and the Census and BMD any local QUESTED or WESTED parish (...) although etymology is not our records online for WESTED as either records in the available indexes. primary concern. NameX is used by sev- a place name or a surname. In both eral genealogy service providers, (...) usages it is very rare. I only found six Following this WESTED byway, I WESTEDs in the censuses 1841-1911, looked at the name WESTHEAD, The problem with Soundex generally on Findmypast21, and only six different which sounds (to the untrained such is that its Precision is so poor – in other marriages looking on all the online as myself) as if it might be linguistically words it returns far too many poor sites available to me. As a place-name, similar. This name, although rare, is matches, mixed up with the good apart from some modern references more numerous than QUESTED, with results. But in the case of “Quested” to Wested Farmhouse in Kent, I found 372 in the 1841 census, rising each it returns good results with good single uses in each of Devon (1634), ten years to 687 in the 1881 and 1085 Precision. Fortunately (for NameX) Suffolk (1313), Yorkshire (1596) and in 191124. In the earlier censuses they this is a rare example. (...) Hampshire (1707). Of greater interest are almost exclusively to be found is reference to a Quitclaim22 held at in Lancashire, and the majority are This poses some questions regard- the centre for Kentish Studies: found there and in adjacent counties ing understanding search engines, in 1911. I do not consider WESTHEAD but, tangentially, also served to ‘Margery dau. of Stephen Havyngod and QUESTED to be connected. remind me of the need to improve and formerly W. of Osbert de my record-keeping of terms used to Cobbeham to Sir Ralph de Sandwye As a brief additional excursion from search each database. Kt. (.....) All her rights in the manors the main path, when I was searching of Stutyuges, Wrotham, Ehteham, for exact names and also for deviants Back on track, or round in circles? Stanstede, Eynsford, Craweham, I was concerned that in the former At this point I joined the Guild and Stocton (....) Wm. Sir Wm. de case we might have a considerable list made contact with Helen Smith, coordi- Fawkeham, (....), Robert de Eynerford, of terms to search each index on, and nator of the QUESTED ONS. She agreed Robert Russel, Roger de Wested, Ralph in the latter case that we can never that the ‘lost Essex village of Questers’ Hareny, Richard Culverhus, Robert be certain that the software behind theory was curious, as she has found no Kateby, Rich. de Cunbe clerk’ the search engine (for example on early records in Essex and can establish Ancestry)25 is using the same logic QUESTEDs in Kent from the late 1400s, So here is a Roger de WESTED, as a one-namer might. I asked John and in particular around Westwell. We associated with the very area where Challis of The NameThesaurus26 about are now collaborating on the QUESTED the present-day WESTED is situated, this, as I felt that Soundex produced ONS, and have set up mechanisms for in a document from 1272. I contacted better true matches for QUESTED sharing data online using Dropbox27
Journal of One-Name Studies, April-June 2011 21 which is a file storage site which can However, QUESTED is only recorded Quiestède is a small village 54 kilome- give us both access to the same files as a place-name there after we know tres south-east of Calais, whose name which are synchronised on all our com- there are QUESTEDs in Kent. We know was given as QUERSTEDE in some as puters. This or a similar application from the work of McKinley32, Hey33 yet unidentified earlier document. would be useful to any GOONS mem- and Redmonds34 that surnames may Google Maps reveals that Quiestède ber, but is a necessity for us as we are arise from a single homestead, also is 88 miles from Westwell, including based on opposite sides of the Globe. that the modern distribution of the a short hop across the Channel. Little We have both undertaken the excel- name, even if circumscribed, may not Sampford is 95 miles and Wherstead lent Pharos28 ONS courses which, in my relate to the location which gave rise 111 miles from Westwell. This could case at least, have made me review my to it. However, it seems to me doubt- induce a return to wild speculation. approach to data collection, analysis ful that a few fields in Essex could and synthesis. We have reviewed our lead to a name which ramified so soon Are we nearly there yet? data and realised that we need a more after in Kent. I contacted The Institute To return to E M Forster, he went to standardised approach to data formats for Name Studies35 at the University of Tonbridge School, in Kent, allowing and need to also set up a data log so Nottingham to ask whether there was me to speculate that he came across that we do not duplicate effort. any evidence of QUESTED/WESTED the name of his heroine there, or even place-names in Kent (the Kent volume a prototype for Miss Adela QUESTED. We have re-examined the early of the English Place-name series is not QUESTED data, and collected more completed). The researcher’s reply, To summarize, we have QUEST- interesting occurrences of the name passed to me via email, reiterated the EDs established around Westwell, in as more indexes come online. The East Reaney hypothesis, and pointed out Kent, from the 15th century onwards. Kent Will Index 1396-1659 (updated ‘on the Tithe Maps (of c.1840) ‘Great QUERSTED(E), found in the same loca- in 2010)29, gives these numbers of doc- and Little Questers cover one single tion from the 13th century, is a variant uments; QUESTED (29), QUERSTED(7), area of considerable size (over 40 and probably an earlier form of the QUERSTEDE(2),QUESTEAD(1), QWEST- acres)’; he did not think the surname name, having all but died out by the ED(2). Five of the 9 QUERSTED(E) wills can have originated in Kent. late 17th century. Etymologists and are from the 15th century, the earliest philologists consider the derivation to being from 1461. There are no WEST- In the light of the early forms be from cweorn ‘quern, hand-mill’ + EDs! The earliest of these QUESTED QUERSTED(E) found recently in stede; site, and argue that the origin wills is from 1497. our data, I returned to Google and is a lost village in Essex. We also have searched the Web, Google Books a village in Suffolk and one in France, A lease from 1437 mentions 3 and Google Scholar for this variant. I whose names have been written iden- QUERSTEDE males, two from Westwell found a small number of interesting tically in the past, and a 15th century and one from Ashford. A recent find occurrences of QUERSTEDE . German with a possible variant of the from the Original Record30 website is name. Work has also started on look- a reference to a Mabel de QUERSTEDE WHERSTEAD36 village website gives ing at the present day distributions of from the Patent Rolls of 1275-1276, the following: Wherstead village lies QUESTAD, a Norwegian name, found mentioning Hothfield, which is less three miles south of Ipswich. (...) In in the USA, and also on KVISTAD, than three miles from Westwell. Doomsday Book the place is described found mainly in Norway. It is difficult under the names Querstede and for an amateur to evaluate linguis- QUESTED has not been found in the Wervesteda. tic explanations for the origin of a Kent Feet of Fines of the 12th to 14th name. If the QUERSTED(E) form takes centuries or in the 1334/5 Kent Lay This website gives a number of links us nearer to the linguistic roots of the Subsidy Roll. to antiquarian books concerning surname, is the evidence for the name WHERSTEAD, several by the Rever- arising in Essex really any greater than It is clear that there are QUESTEDs and end Zincke37, which are available in that for it originating in Suffolk, or, QUERSTED(E)s in the same small area PDF format. These will make for a indeed, France? of Kent in the 15th Century, and the lot of reading; a post on Rootsweb38 record from the previous paragraph gives an extract listing many names I have learnt so far that following red is from two hundred years earlier and for WHERSTEAD. herrings can waste time which might in the same small area. This seems have been better spent stopping to to throw more doubt on the Essex I found a number of references to an organise, analyse and synthesise my origin for the name, so I returned to Albrecht QUERSTEDT circa 1426 on Ger- existing data. However, sometimes a look at this theory. Reaney31 does give man sites39 which I am unable to trans- blind alley may contain a nugget of QUESTERS as a group of field-names in late, despite trying Google Translate. information; collaboration can bring three adjacent parishes around Great great rewards and a new emphasis to Sampford, Essex, and states that it was Lastly, I found a French antiquarian an ONS and taking stock and review- recorded as QUERNSTED and QUERN- book online40, which gave the following: ing ‘known unknowns’ is an essential STEDE in the 13th and 14th centuries; part of our One-name study. that Great QUESTERS (in Little Samp- QUIESTÈDE, c°n d’Aire. 307 hab.; en ford), is recorded as QUESTED in 1484, 1698 : 446 h. — Kierstede, pouil. de and as QUESTED (in Thaxted), in the Thérouanne. — Querstede, pouil. de 16th century. So we do have a linguis- Boulogne. —Quistède, le Petit et le tic link with our name, but no early Grand, Bignon. — Quistède, village; genealogical links so far with Essex. (...) Maillart. C’est au Petit Quiestède.
22 Journal of One-Name Studies, April-June 2011 Endnotes 1086-present day, (Manches- ter: University Press, 1995) 31. P.H. Reaney, The Place-Names of Essex, (Cambridge: Uni- 1. EM Forster, A Passage to India, 16. Genealogy Research Skills versity Press,1935), p.643 (London: Penguin, 1998). courses, Birkbeck Univer- 32. R McKinley, A History of 2. Peter Walker, ‘What does sity, http://www.bbk.ac.uk/ British Surnames, (Lon- it all mean?’, Journal of study/ce/genealogy/courses/ don: Longman, 1990) One-Name Studies, 9 (No. [Accessed 25 June 2010] 5, Jan - Mar 2007), 6-13 17. David Crystal, The Stories of 33. David Hey, Family names and Family History, (London: Ham- 3. RG 11, Registrar Gen- English, (London: Penguin bledon & London, 2005) eral, 1881 Census, England. Books, 2005), pp, 140-143 Online at http://search. 18. Advanced Higher English Disser- 34. Redmonds ancestry.co.uk/search/grou- tation, http://www.r0ry.co.uk/ 35. Institute for Name Stud- plist.aspx?group=1881UKI dissertation.php, [anonymous] ies, http://www.nottingham. [Accessed 25 May 2010] [Accessed 15 March 2008, Site ac.uk/~aezins//index.php not found on 25 June 2010]. 4. RG 14, Registrar General, 36. Wherstead.com, http://wherest- 1911 Census England. Online 19. Archaeology UK place name ead.com/ [Accessed 9 May 2010] athttp://www.findmypast. search, http://www.digital-doc- co.uk/CensusPersonStartSea uments.co.uk/archi/placename. 37. F B Zincke, Some Materi- rchServlet?censusYear=1911 htm, [Accessed 25 June 2010] als for the History of Wher- [Accessed 15 May 2010] stead (Ipswich: 1887) 20. The National Archives, Cata- 5. National Trust Names. http:// logues and online records, 38. Rootsweb Archives ENG-SFK- www.nationaltrustnames.org. http://www.nationalarchives. STOWMARKET-L, 2007 http:// uk/ [Accessed 10 January 2010] gov.uk/records/catalogues- listsearches.rootsweb.com/ th/read/ENG-SFK-STOWMAR- 6. Surnames of England and and-online-records.htm [Accessed 25 Jun 2010] KET/2007-06/1181220403 Wales - the ONS list, online [Accessed 9 May 2010] at http://www.taliesin- 21. Findmypast, http://www. arlein.net/names/search.php findmypast.co.uk/welcome. 39. http://www.suehnekreuz. [Accessed 10 January 2010] jsp, [Accessed 25 Jun 2010] de/anhalt/stendal.htm 7. Henry Barber, British Fam- 22. Quitclaim U442/T153 10 40. Memoiresde la Societe Anti- ily Names (London: Eliot May 1272, http://www. quaires de la Morinie DIC- Stock, 1894), p183 nationalarchives.gov.uk/ TIONNAIRE GÉOGRAPHIQUE a2a/records.aspx?cat=051- De l’ARRONDISSEMENT 8. Charles Wareing Bardsley, DE SAINT-OMER, (1869) A Dictionary of English and u442&cid=2-99-1#2-99-1 Welsh Surnames, (Balti- [Accessed 10 January 2010] Websites more: Genealogical Publish- 23. Farningham and Eynsford Access to Archives,
Journal of One-Name Studies, April-June 2011 23 Seminar Report - Rogues Seminar Ruishton Village Hall, Taunton, Somerset, Feb 12th 2011
By Janet Few
Janet sent a very comprehensive report containing extra details on the four talks. Owing to lack of space we have produced the following précis. Janet’s full report with website links may be found on the Guild website at www.one-name.org/members/seminars.html
hat better way to spend a NFK, 1597] ‘We present unto you that Saturday in February than John Thomlinson and the wife of Win the company of a variety George Ellis were locked into a room of rogues and criminals? No, not the together very suspiciously, by her hus- delegates at the recent Guild ‘Rogues band’s report.’ [Thame, Oxf 1608]. Seminar’ in Taunton, but the topic of And these were the ones that can be the day itself. It was a measure of the quoted before the watershed! friendliness of the occasion that, an hour before the official proceedings Next was Esther Hoyle, Senior began, delegates were arriving, Archivist at the Somerset Heritage greeting old friends and making new Centre. She did for the civil court ones. The seasoned hands always system what Colin had done for the seem to absorb the first-timers into ecclesiastical courts. Although Esther’s this ambience in a seamless fashion. examples were from Somerset, this Liz Hore presents on records One delegate, at her first seminar, didn’t matter, as the information was housed in the National Archives commented on this, stating that she applicable elsewhere. Apart from the didn’t in the least feel out of place. standard petty and quarter sessions’ site now has a User Wiki feature, where This early part of the day was also records, that are housed in County we can add additional detail about the an opportunity to view the variety of Record Offices, Esther pointed out individuals listed. Liz also mentioned posters that attendees had produced, that we can come across references to the searchable index of the Archives telling the stories of the rogues, crimes and punishments in a variety of Office of Tasmania listing many criminals and victims in their own other, sometimes unexpected, places: transportees. The developing website, one-name studies. school log-books and vestry minutes Anglo-American Legal Tradition, to name but two. with its links to the National Archives As ever, the chat with fellow attend- catalogue, is also worth exploring. ees was every bit as important as lis- After an excellent buffet lunch, tening to the excellent speakers. And organised by the efficient catering David Hawkings rounded off the excellent they were. What a pleasure team, and more socialising and day with an overview of the records, to hear well-presented papers given exchanging of ideas, the sessions showing how these could be brought by knowledgeable experts. We all had resumed. Liz Hore, from the National together by providing us with a case something to learn from the day. Dr Archives, spoke about the records study of one of his own criminal Colin Chapman opened the proceed- housed there. She said that there are ancestors (he has five and challenged ings by helping us to understand the plans to add many of the criminal us to beat the total), Thomas Hartnell, complexities of the hierarchical church registers to the Findmypast website prisoner number B493. The fact that we court system. Colin illustrated his talk within the next eighteen months. This all do have criminals in our families, if with examples of lurid church court will be very valuable as the frustrating only we could find out about them, was cases. As Colin said, forget the red-top point of the whole day was the brought home when a member of the newspapers, here is all the salacious impression given, by all four speakers, audience spotted one of his ancestors gossip one could possibly want. And that although there is certainly all listed on one of David’s slides. want it we do because hidden some- sorts of wonderful information about where in the records of the church our families in the records that they Many thanks must go to the courts are mentions of, it is estimated, were describing, it is very difficult for organisers for such an interesting, 10% of the population. That’s 10% of us to access this in what is, at present, informative and friendly day. Now your ancestors and mine, be they crim- largely un-indexed material. Liz did we all need to get down to indexing inals, witnesses or victims. Amongst mention some useful websites. Many court records so that the rogues and the examples quoted by Colin were: members will be familiar with the criminals can be found and added to ‘Marian Everard hath had a bastard searchable Old Bailey Online website our one-name studies. n and hath not come to church to give which covers the proceedings of the thanks after childbirth.’ [Felmingham, Central Criminal Court 1674-1913. This
24 Journal of One-Name Studies, April-June 2011 Forthcoming Seminars
13th August 2011 Northumberland Mining Seminar The Art Of ONS Seminar 21st May 2011, Woodhorn Archives, Ashington, Subject matter would be new Northumberland, NE63 9YF members with more emphasis on what an ONS entails and less ome and join us on the beautiful Northumbrian coast and learn all about on the workings of the Guild. In mining, not just coal mining, but also the lead and iron ore mining that this revamp of our regular new took place in Durham, Northumberland and the adjacent counties. We members seminar, we intend to C have collected a group of local experts who will tell you the story of mining expand on methodology in the in the region and assist you with names and stories to enhance your research. one-name study. It is planned to Time has been allowed for a visit to the Northumberland Archives and a visit have a special Q&A session with to their very interesting museum. For accessing the archives, further details on specialists given advance notice requirements are available on the Woodhorn Archives website. in order that they may research a deeper answer. Programme Venue: Colonel Dane Memorial Hall, Church Street, Alwalton, PE7 3UU 09.30 - 10.15 Arrival: Registration and Coffee 10.15 - 10.20 Welcome and Introduction 10.20 - 10.50 Woodhorn Archives Mining Records - Duty Woodhorn Archivist 10.50 - 11.00 Comfort Break 19th November 2011 11.00 - 12.00 Durham Mining Museum and DMM Website - Kev Duncan Railway Records Seminar 12.00 - 14.00 Finger Buffet Lunch & You would be hard done by if Opportunity to visit Museum & Archives there was not a railway worker in 14.00 - 15.00 Early Miners‘ Surname Lists for Northumbria - Geoff Nicholson your ancestry or one-name study. 15.00 - 15.15 Comfort Break We have selected this magnificent 15.15 - 16.15 Mining Durham’s Hidden Depths - Gill Parkes, venue and requested some of Durham County Record Office the countrie’s most recognised 16.15 - 16.35 Wrap up, Q&A and close of seminar specialists in the subject of railways to speak about old railway records Following on from our two successful seminars at Durham University in 2008 and associated trade unions. To and the University of Sunderland in 2005, we return to the North East again. start us off, a member of the
museum staff will explain just With the two local archives represented, together with Kev Duncan, the crea- what they hold; should you wish to tor of the famous Durham Mining Museum website, and Geoff Nicholson, well include this in your visit. Maybe you known local Genealogist, we have certainly gathered together an interesting would like to stay an extra day? set of speakers for this seminar. Venue: STEAM - Museum of the Great Western Railway, Kemble On the Guild interactive front, should you have any stories of miners in your Drive, Swindon, SN2 2TA family to share with others, please bring along a display. In order that we are not short of room, please contact the event co-ordinator Rod Clayburn if you require a display board.
18th February 2012 Disabled delegates. We would like to ensure that any disabled delegates may Aldershot Army Seminar participate fully in this event. The Woodhorn complex is modern and fully Disability Acts compliant. The Where better for a seminar on seminar function room and the Army Records than at the home of Northumberland Archives are the British Army, Aldershot? Not on upper floors, but there are quite Aldershot, but at Ash Victoria lifts available. Should you need Hall, some 3 miles to the east. Ash is any special requirements, please home to the Army Medical Services telephone the Guild Help Desk Museum at Keogh Barracks. We below. Book on-line at www. shall be assembling a group of one-name.org under the ‘Event experts and trust you will join us. Calendar’ tab. Postal booking Venue: Ash Victoria Hall, 121 Ash forms may also be downloaded Hill Road, Ash, Surrey, GU12 5DN from the Guild website or by telephoning the Guild Help Desk Tel: 0800 011 2182. n
Journal of One-Name Studies, April-June 2011 25 Revealing Online Survey Of ‘Newish’ Guild Members
By Chris Pomery
he Guild attracts many new highlighting the Guild’s key role as a ship confusing. Forum members won’t members every year but we’ve forum of surname expertise. be surprised by the comment from one Tlong wondered why approxi- that “I think the best thing would be for mately a fifth of them regularly let The Committee is still digesting the all the information for joining and what their membership lapse within two survey results, but the broad message is required not to be quite so scary. (Ed: years of joining the Guild. Why exact- is pretty clear: almost nine out of ten The only registration commitment is to ly isn’t the Guild working for them? respondents said they’d expected to respond to all enquiries made to them. find additional resources on the Guild’s Members registering a surname should An online survey offered a quick website explaining how best to organise strive towards the goal of establishing and easy way to investigate why our a study, and almost two-thirds reported a substantial body of worldwide data, ‘churn rate’ of newly-joining mem- that they had been looking for support in particular for countries where the bers is so high and a survey run last and advice to run the documentary side name is relatively significant and where autumn has identified actions we can of their study when they’d joined. As sources are readily available.) I nearly take that will improve the experience one member put, “I know I have a lot to didn’t join because I was put off by the of membership for all of us. learn, but in some cases I am not even seemingly ‘high brow’ approach to the aware of where I am ignorant.” requirements and in fact I hesitated for Targeting the pool of 621 members several months before actually joining who’d joined since mid-2008, a total Excellent Reponse and then registering my name. Since of 284 replied out of the 505 who We can certainly congratulate our- then of course, I have discovered that were then still paid-up members, an selves on the high response rate. A everyone is super friendly and help- astonishingly high 55% response rate. 2% rate would be a good result for an ful and willing to do things for fellow old-fashioned direct mail campaign. A researchers as I have done in my turn. Respondents revealed that their deci- higher than 50% rate signals that our The marriage challenges have to be one sion whether to renew their member- newer members really do want to con- of the best opportunities I have found ship or not is driven primarily by personal tribute to the direction and running of for improving my study.” The survey circumstances and lack of time. Surname the Guild even if they don’t feel able also revealed some misconceptions: studies ask a lot of us as researchers and or ready to take on a volunteer post. quite a few respondents wrote that many newcomers find they’ve com- There’s a lesson for our ONS research they’d expected membership to gener- mitted to more than they feel they can groups here too. Online surveys are ate more “leads” for them. accomplish. Those members not renew- quick to put together, can often be ing also show a much lower awareness free, and increase the sense of inclusion Without anticipating the Committee’s of the Guild’s core services and facilities, among groups of people who rarely if recommendations, it seems to me that and make much less use of them, com- ever get to meet each other in the flesh. what’s needed is a collection of best pared to members who stick with us. practice papers covering the techni- 37% of all respondents were not aware The survey also revealed signs that cal aspects of running a surname study. of the Guild Wiki, for example, com- the shape of the membership is shift- These would need to rise above the level pared with 24% using it. ing with an increasing proportion liv- of anecdote and individual experience ing outside of the UK and/or joining to synthesise our collective knowledge It’s often repeated within the without registering a surname. The and help new members make practical Guild that outsiders perceive us as later increase may have resulted from choices about which software to select, unfriendly, but it’s more accurate a requirement some two years ago for how to put their data online, and how to say that as newcomers discover new members to join the Guild first and to reconstruct their trees. New members that the task of setting up an ONS is then subsequently register a surname if are asking for help from us to navigate more daunting and time-consuming appropriate. A number of new mem- their way through the key decisions that than they’d realised they simultane- bers report they are doing geographi- will shape their studies for years to come, ously encounter a highly knowledge- cally-specific studies of a surname, not and I’m sure I’ll benefit too from that. able crowd discussing issues in great a worldwide study, so that whilst they detail. Balancing that insecurity, a are using the same research methods Note great many respondents expressed as registered members they themselves We used Survey Monkey to ask 5 a high level of satisfaction with the have not registered their surname. opinion questions and 4 factual ques- Guild. Indeed the highest retention tions. The survey can be reviewed rate was scored among members There is evidence that new members online at www.surveymonkey.com/ who want to start their research, still find the requirements of member- s/59RNZTL n
26 Journal of One-Name Studies, April-June 2011 study. The earliest occurrence of the I was initially disappointed with surname is to Adam de Heptonstall the lack of diagrams, charts, graph- (Adam of Heptonstall) in the 1233 ics, maps, and photographs, which Curia Regis Roll, although the first would have usefully added to the true instance found of the surname effectiveness of telling the story of was the probate for the will of John the Heptonstalls. However once I Heptonstall of Smeton in the parish had a look at the accompanying disc of Wilmerslay dated 25 Oct 1468. I found that it included 115 photo- graphs and a Word document pro- The next three chapters look at viding a detailed legend of each of the frequency and distribution of the photographs. In addition the the surname (including variances). disc includes data files on Births/ These describe published work on Marriages/Deaths (Australia, Cana- the distribution of the name, incor- da, UK) Censuses (UK, Canada, USA) porate a large number of tables of and passenger lists. distribution across the world, and explain the numerous occurrences of By the end of 2009 David ceased variants of the surname. Subsequent collecting further data and put all chapters provide an analysis on the his efforts into writing up as much use of forenames for Heptonstall as he could of his research into families, the occupations of Hepton- the Heppenstall family. David only stalls and the instances of wills iden- learned that his brain cancer was tified for this surname. These are all terminal five weeks before he died. useful examples on how to analyse a Apparently at this point David went surname in a one-name study. into overdrive and completed his 201-page book on the Heppenstalls. David has drawn up 162 Heptonstall Sadly David never saw the finished BORN HEP..... family trees and a significant part of book before it arrived back from OR BORN TO BE HEP this book is employed in summaris- the printers. However I am sure by Dr David Heppenstall Mellor ing these trees. Four of the larger he would have been very proud of Published by WB & DLHS 2010 trees are described in detail in the the finished product, it is a superb ISBN 978-0-9555269-1-6 following chapter, while full reports example of how a one-name study of all 162 HEP trees can be found in can be written-up. Price £15.00 the accompanying disc. I suggest this is essential reading for all members A copy of this book has been his book is a one name study of the Heppenstall families. deposited in the Guild’s library and of the surnames Heppenstall, can be borrowed by members via THeptinstall, Heptonstall, Hemp- The book concludes with many www.one-name.org/members/gpa/ enstall, Haptonstall, Heppleston, examples of unusual Heptonstall events, loans_books.html. However, if you Eppleston and variants. The book has details of famous Heptonstalls and an are truly interested in publishing your 17 chapters covering all aspects of update of the origin of the surname one-name study book, I suggest you David’s research relating to the Hep- and how the Heppenstall study has purchase a copy of this book (the cost penstall name. It comes with a CD contributed to this assessment. David’s of producing the book was £30.00 containing an extensive array of data aim in writing this book was to record but Guild members can purchase a files, indexes, Gedcom files, reports all the information he had found so that copy of the book at a “special price” and photos. it was not lost. David has succeeded in of £15.00 plus post and packaging. his aim and I encourage all Heppenstalls Copies available from Yin Mellor – The first chapter provides a full list to buy a copy of this book to learn more [email protected]. n of all the main data sources used in about the Heppenstall name. One- this study. The extensive range of data Namers can also learn from this book Cliff Kemball sources will help as a check list of the on one way of recording the results of a data that can usefully be collected one-name study. by anyone undertaking a one-name
Journal of One-Name Studies, April-June 2011 27 Pictures from WDYTYA and the Guild’s Seminar at Taunton Vol 10 Issue April - June 2011 Vol
Main inset: The Guild’s stand at WDYTYA. Top left: Guild stand manager Corrinnne Goodenough. Middle left: Guild Treasurer Cliff Kemball with Guild member Jan Gow, all the way from New Zealand. Bottom left to right - Pictures from Taunton: Colin Chapman, David Hawkings, Esther Hoyle, Liz Hore.
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